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IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? - Fasting is right and
proper; but that which God approves will prompt to, and will be
followed by, deeds of justice, kindness, charity. The prophet proceeds
t...
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3. JEWISH HISTORY IN THE END TIME: THEIR FUTURE GLORY AND THE GLORY OF
THE COMING AGE (58-59)
This third and last section of the vision of Isaiah can only be
understood and appreciated if it is studie...
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FASTING, FALSE AND TRUE. Yahweh bids the prophet explain to His people
wherein their sin lies. Daily they attend the Temple, seeking to know
His will for all the world as though their one aim were to...
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BANDS. pangs. See note on Psalms 73:4....
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Description of the true fast in which Jehovah delights. The duties
enjoined fall under two heads: (1) abstinence from every form of
oppression (Isaiah 58:6), and (2) the exercise of positive beneficen...
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DISCOURSE: 993
THE SERVICES WHICH GOD REQUIRES
Isaiah 58:5. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to
afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to
spread sackcloth...
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2. HOLINESS
TEXT: Isaiah 58:6-12
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of
wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break ever...
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break every yoke?
TO LOOSE THE BANDS OF WICKEDNE...
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2. DID RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. kept the law. They are ready enough for the
external requirements of religion....
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THE HEAVY BURDENS] RV 'the bands of the yoke.'...
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To take care of poor and weak people in society is to practise
*self-denial. This what the *Lord calls a true *fast.
• The *Lord approves of those who take care of other people in this
way. They will...
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ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS
GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE
ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66
_NORMAN HILLYER_
CHAPTER 58
WRONG PRACTICE OF RELIGION
V1 (This is what God says.) ‘Shout loudly...
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TO LOOSE THE BANDS OF WICKEDNESS. — The words do not exclude
abstinence from food as an act of discipline and victory over
self-indulgence, but declare its insufficiency by itself. So in the
practice...
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הֲ לֹ֣וא זֶה֮ צֹ֣ום אֶבְחָרֵהוּ֒
פַּתֵּ֨חַ֙ ח
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CHAPTER XXIII
THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE
Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1
IT was inevitable, as so
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THE FAST THAT GOD HAS CHOSEN
Isaiah 58:1-14
The divorce between outward rites and inward piety has been the curse
of every age. When the Pharisees were plotting our Lord's death, they
refused to ent...
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We now commence the last division of the book, which deals with the
program of peace as it sets forth the conditions, describes the
ultimate realization, and insists on a principle of discrimination....
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[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of
wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go
free, and that ye break every (f) yoke?
(f) That you leave off all...
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_Bands. Contracts of usury, &c. (Calmet)_...
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Observe how possible it is to have a fondness for ordinances, but to
be void of a spirit of grace in them. Outward observances are easily
followed; but heart-renewing, heart-felt sorrow for sin, consi...
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6._Is not this the fast which I have chosen? _The Prophet shows what
are the real duties of piety, and what God chiefly recommends to us;
namely, to relieve those who are wretched and pressed with a h...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59.
But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at
the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and
their hypoc...
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IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN?.... Which God has appointed,
he approves of, and is well pleasing in his sight; these are works and
services more agreeable to him, which follow, without which...
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Isaiah 58:6 _[Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the
bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the
oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?_
Ver. 6. _Is n...
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_Is not this the fast that I have chosen?_ Or _approve_, as before,
Isaiah 58:5. Or ought not such a fast to be accompanied with such
things as these? He now proceeds to show the concomitants of a tru...
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A SHARP REPROOF OF HYPOCRISY...
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Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bands of
wickedness, to release the oppressed laborers, TO UNDO THE HEAVY
BURDENS, which these tyrants had laid upon their men as upon
pack-animal...
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THE HEAVY BURDENS:
_ Heb._ the bundles of the yoke
OPPRESSED:
_ Heb._ broken...
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3-12 A fast is a day to afflict the soul; if it does not express true
sorrow for sin, and does not promote the putting away of sin, it is
not a fast. These professors had shown sorrow on stated or oc...
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IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN? or, _approve_, as before,
ISAIAH 58:5: or, Ought not such a fast to be accompanied with such
things as these? where he is now about to show the concomitants of...
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Isaiah 58:6 fast H6685 chosen H977 (H8799) loose H6605 (H8763) bonds
H2784 wickedness H7562 undo H5425 ...
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THE CALL TO COVENANT RIGHTEOUSNESS (ISAIAH 58:6).
Isaiah 58:6
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen,
To loose the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed g...
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Isaiah 58:6
This passage is one of those in which the purity and holiness peculiar
to the Gospel seem to be foretokened in the morality of the prophetic
canon. Isaiah has been termed the Evangelical P...
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Isaiah 58:3
I. The Hebrew prophet's deliverance here is not in condemnation or
disparagement of all fasting. The people of his day were in the habit,
it appears, of denying themselves food, and assumi...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet,
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins. Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways as...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet
and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their
sins._
See, friends, how stolid men are by nature. God's mess...
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CONTENTS: Hypocritical professions of religion. Instructions how to
keep fasts aright.
CHARACTERS: God.
CONCLUSION: It is common for unhumbled hearts, while they perform the
external services of rel...
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Isaiah 58:1. _Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet._
It is not doubted by the Jews, nor by St. Jerome, that Isaiah lived to
the beginning of Manasseh's idolatrous reign; nor that he...
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_Wherefore have we fasted?_
FASTS
Fasts were a common feature of the old Israelitish religion (1Ki 21:9;
1 Kings 21:12; Jeremiah 36:9). In Zechariah 8:19 we learn expressly
that during the exile four...
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_Is not this the fast that I have chosen?_
PRACTICAL FASTING
In reply to the question, how the acts here mentioned could be
described as fasting, J. D. Michaelis says that they are all to be
conside...
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_Is it such a fast that I have chosen?_
THE FAST WHICH GOD HAS CHOSEN
I. GOD’S PURPOSE IN COMMANDING MEN TO FAST.
1. To lead us to prayer (Isaiah 58:4), prayer so real that our voices
are “heard on...
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ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 58:6 God defines the kind of spiritual
faithfulness that brings his blessing (compare Isaiah 1:17; James
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A PLEA FOR THE DISTRESSED
Isaiah 58:6. _Is not this the fast that I have chosen? &c._
In the former verses of this chapter we have a description of the
state of heart of the Jewish people in the cour...
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SECTION VI. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND WARNINGS, FOLLOWED BY A
CONFESSION AND A PROMISE (Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1.).
EXPOSIT
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Cry aloud, spare not (Isaiah 58:1),
The Lord is commanding now the prophet Isaiah.
lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their
transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. Yet t...
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1 Timothy 6:1; Jeremiah 34:8; Micah 3:2; Nehemiah 5:10...
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The bands — The cruel obligations of usury and oppression....